CHESS/RUPT vs Unlike
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CHESS/RUPT
Experience a unique twist on chess where capturing pieces changes your abilities. Solve over 50 gravity-defying puzzles or engage in endless runs with dynamic board mechanics. Play offline and compete with friends on leaderboards.
- Gravity-defying chess puzzles
- Dynamic board transformations
- Capture pieces to change abilities
- Daily challenges and puzzles
- Offline play
- Leaderboard competition
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Gravity Chess: 50+ puzzles. Play the first 10 levels free. Move a familiar chess piece. Capture another to change what you can do. Then find a way off a board that is breaking beneath you. CHESS/RUPT turns the moves you already know into fast, tactical runs. Move as the king, queen, rook, bishop, knight, and pawn; transform when you capture; and survive while tiles crack, collapse, and reshape the board. Start with a free Daily Challenge or Daily Puzzle. Everyone gets the same rules that day, so you can solve it your way, protect a streak, and compare scores on optional Game Center leaderboards. Want a longer run? Crown Trials, Puzzle Mode, Free Play, and battle modes turn familiar chess movement into new problems: * Survive a shrinking board and escalating enemy pressure * Plan captures through portals, frozen pieces, and changing movement * Claim territory, chase signals, outlast a snake, or be the last piece standing * Play short sessions offline, then submit optional Game Center scores Daily Challenge and Daily Puzzle are free. One optional, one-time Unlimited Plays purchase unlocks all non-daily modes. No ads, subscriptions, consumable currency, or random loot.
Unlike
A logic puzzle game where you fill cells based on numerical clues about neighboring cell styles. Learn through interactive lessons and explore hundreds of levels with daily challenges. Save progress locally or sync with iCloud.
- Fill cells based on neighbor clues
- Interactive learning lessons
- 200+ difficulty-progression levels
- Daily puzzles and free play
- Undo, redo, and hint system
- Customizable themes and accessibility options
- Offline play and iCloud sync
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Fill every cell. Follow the clues. Find the solution. Unlike is a logic puzzle played with solid and outlined cells. Each number counts its neighbors with the opposite style. Only shared edges count: above, below, left and right. Gold-dot cells are already fixed; every other cell needs a style. LEARN BY PLAYING Four short lessons teach the rule through interactive examples. Open the playing guide during a puzzle, or use a hint to find a clue, understand the deduction and optionally place a cell. KEEP EXPLORING - A 200-level difficulty progression, with more puzzles beyond it. - Daily puzzles and free play at five difficulties. - Undo, redo and Check, plus optional live clue feedback. - Themes, larger tiles, high contrast and reduced motion options. - Choose your preferred language in the app. PROGRESS THAT STAYS WITH YOU Your unfinished puzzle saves on this device, including undo history. Completed levels and stars sync with iCloud when available. No Unlike account or registration is needed. Puzzles can be played offline. Ads may appear after campaign levels from level 4, and after Daily and Free Play puzzles. An optional one-time purchase removes ads in every mode. Additional themes are available individually or through Every Theme, which includes future paid themes. Existing Every Theme owners receive newly added paid themes without another purchase.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: CHESS/RUPT at none against Unlike's shown. CHESS/RUPT also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 80%). Unlike's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (36 vs 4). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. CHESS/RUPT sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Unlike sells 15 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for CHESS/RUPT against 4.9 for Unlike. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Unlike has 36 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of CHESS/RUPT's written reviews are positive against 80% of Unlike's.
CHESS/RUPT ships an update every 3 weeks, Unlike every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CHESS/RUPT | Unlike |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | 4.9 (36 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 80.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 36 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Ankur Gupta LLC | Vinicios Cunha |
Customer experience
CHESS/RUPT
Unlike
In-app purchases
CHESS/RUPT
- Unlimited Plays$4.99
Unlike
- Paperfold$0.99
- Stained Glass$0.99
- Intaglio$0.99
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- Foundry$0.99
- Zellige$0.99
- Moon Jelly Theme$0.99
- Ghost Light Theme$0.99
- Deep Forest Theme$0.99
- Neon Arcade Theme$0.99
- Blueprint Theme$0.99
- Ember Theme$0.99
- Chalkboard Theme$0.99
- Bubblegum Theme$0.99
- Remove Ads$6.99
- Every Theme$12.99









